Bal Harbour, FL – April 10, 2019 – In the company of influential guests from Miami’s vibrant cultural and social scene, De Beers celebrated its new home in Bal Harbour Shops with an exclusive, art-inspired experience in collaboration with Miami-based artist Deon Rubi and Nathaly Charria at Le Sirenuse Miami, The Four Seasons Surfside. With Experiential Creative Direction by Nathaly, the project featured a site-specific installation that brought to life the image of Deon’s limited edition cover of the De Beer’s Assouline book.

I wanted to create an experience using nature as a sculptural object and water as a medium for lightness, transparency and reflection, tuning into De Beers’ commitment to beauty through the natural world. Looking through water creates a moment where time is suspended, like holding your breath, like looking closely at a diamond. In water, everything gets emphasized, augmented, full of texture, lines and colors.

Parker Day is the featured artist at this year's Startup Art Fair Los Angeles, on view Friday January 26th - Sunday January 27th at The Kinney in Venice. Parker will transform one of the mid century modern suites into a freaky art paradise that brings audiences into the sets of ICONS. Through bright colors and textures, Parker shares her body of work within a site-specific installation that differentiates from her traditional exhibitions. The project presents the second edition of ICONS published by Not A Cult and includes an artist talk and book signing.

Startup Art Fair is a contemporary art fair established by independent artists in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Founded by artist and educator Ray Beldner, and former gallery director Steve Zavattero, Startup Art Fair'smission is to provide a professional exhibition venue for independent artists where they can present and sell their work and foster relationships with emerging and established collectors.

British lifestyle brand Superdry continues its global expansion by exploring the connection between art and fashion at the grand opening of their West Coast flagship store at Westfield Century City. To celebrate the grand opening, Superdry has commissioned a series of photographs by LA-based artist Parker Day featuring an iconic cast of the city’s most influential misfits. The exhibition titled “Portraits” presents Day’s first series of black and white photographs alongside a musical performance by rapper and producer Hodgy. Creative Direction by Nathaly Charria.

This month-long installation celebrates the diverse culture of the Superdry brand. With the opening of their West Coast flagship store, Superdry redefines how patron and gallery spaces can coexist within a retail environment. Art and fashion have long drawn inspiration from the muse. This exhibition unifies both industries around a cult group of local style misfits. In her portraits, Day captures the raw essence of each subject, styled in Superdry by @mstr_of_disguise aka Ann-Marie Hoang.

The Festival of Disruption is a music, art, and film festival curated by David Lynch. As part of the festivities, Polaroid Originals partnered up with the David Lynch Foundation to present a creative reproduction of the iconic Red Room portrayed in Lynch’s pioneering television series, Twin Peaks. Festival goers were able to take photos in a reproduction of the red curtain encased set on the unforgettable chevron patterned floor while sitting in the original chairs used in filming. Participants received one unique print shot of their visit to The Red Room using the new Polaroid OneStep 2 instant analog camera, courtesy of Polaroid. Curatorial expert Nathaly Charria was brought on board to steer the project’s creative reproduction for Polaroid and the David Lynch Foundation.

In addition to the Red Room recreation, Charria created an 8x10 Polaroid gallery space to exhibit Duochrome Polaroids shot by David Lynch on the set of Twin Peaks, 2016.

Nicole Ehrlich'sAnnual Celebration of Women In Art honored the prolific Mickalene Thomas with a signing and conversation of her latest book Muse. Thomas is a contemporary artist based in New York whose work challenges concepts of beauty, race, gender and sexuality. Working across a variety of mediums from performance to painting, photography, and collage, Thomas is a visionary artist that’s bringing women of color into the forefront of contemporary art. Her latest book Muse, presents a collection of photographs of the women and fellow photographers who continually inspire her. Thomas’ groundbreaking presence in contemporary art has paved the way for female artists through empowering imagery of black women. She gives power to the feminist perspectives and women of color. Thomas has been exhibited in major galleries and institutions around the world and is included in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum.

Trade the past for a never ending story.Trade the end for a new beginning.Trade hatred for a better understanding.Trade slavery for freedom.Trade anger for artistic expression.Trade like for eternal love.8.- Hodgy

“My debut album is gratefully my past to present,” explains Hodgy, born Gerard Long. A contemporary wizard, illusionist and dreamer, Hodgy represents the vision for a new generation of artists who take an interdisciplinary approach to shifting paradigms and disassociating from expected boundaries. The album is a reflection of Hodgy’s evolution from teenage angst to fatherhood within the undertones of a mystic lyricist. Hodgy’s approach to his art is enigmatic. He is a breathing manifestation and traveling light that serves as a mirror for humanity through these ever-changing times.

“Cruising," a reference to queer meeting spaces, brings together some of Los Angeles’ most iconic, emerging, and historical LGBTQ artists. The program presents a multi-generational perspective that speaks to the diversity of what it means to be queer in 2016 and seeks to honor those who have paved the way for LGBTQ visibility in contemporary culture. With the goal of creating an inclusive, inspiring, and accessible exhibition, “Cruising” is both a nostalgic reminder of yesterday's survival tactics and a call to continue constructing profound queer ecosystems in public space and within the art world.

The opening of “Cruising” will kick off LA PRIDE Festival & Parade on Friday June 10, 2016 with a free preview and curator-led exhibition tour starting at 6PM followed by an 8PM screening of Zackary Drucker’s prodigious films at the City Council Chambers (Located in the West Hollywood Library). Recently Drucker encountered censorship from institutions exhibiting her work and CSW is proud to share her voice uncensored as part of the 2016 LA PRIDE weekend. This screening will consist of “Southern For Pussy,” “Fish,” and “She Gone Rogue.” The later was commissioned by the Hammer Museum and presented at the inaugural 2012 Los Angeles Biennial, subsequently at 2014 Whitney Biennial, acquired by Smith College Museum of Art, and made possible by Luis De Jesus Gallery.

Christopher Street West Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization located in the Greater Los Angeles area. Composed entirely of passionate volunteers, CSW is dedicated to human rights, education, outreach and better understanding within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, as well as the broader community. Founded in response to the Stonewall Rebellion on Christopher Street in New York on June 28, 1969, Christopher Street West conducted the first parade in the world advocating for gay rights on June 28, 1970 in Hollywood, CA. That tradition lives on today in the form of the LA PRIDE Music Festival and Parade, now in its 46th year, taking place in the City of West Hollywood, CA.

CSW engages with event production firm JJ|LA LLC in the production and management of the LA PRIDE Music Festival & Parade.

PABLO DYLAN / a pre-legendary tribute to trap punk, presents the early sounds of a young artist and scion of the historical BOB DYLAN. With vast inroads in the music industry and a preternatural sense of cultural movements, PABLO DYLAN’s rebellious spirit echoes with the dissidence of radical youth and anthems for a post-internet age. Working in punk trap, he channels the anti- establishment rhetoric within both genres to create something entirely unheard. A type of music that’s as revolutionary as his grandfather’s sound was to folk.